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1977 French Petition against Age of Consent Laws

Topics: foucault, derrida, sartre, pedophilia, age of consent, france, postmodernism, moral relativism

Collection: opensource

Language: French

Item Size: 6.8M

In 1977, a petition was addressed to the French parliament calling for the abrogation of several articles of the age of consent law and the decriminalization of all consensual relations between adults and minors below the age of fifteen (the age of consent in France). A number of French intellectuals – including such prominent names as Michel Foucault , Gilles Deleuze , Jacques Derrida , Louis Aragon , Louis Althusser , Roland Barthes , Simone de Beauvoir , Jean-Paul Sartre , Félix Guattari , Michel Leiris ,Alain Robbe-Grillet , Philippe Sollers , Jacques Rancière , Jean-François Lyotard , Francis Ponge , Bernard Besret [ fr ] and various prominent doctors and psychologists – signed the petition .